The Sun. — London, England, 1809-01-20 00:00:00

-!. ic....,44, , 441+ (....1 111 ii preLIiIIOMWEIMIre, inDS:rinii". ten weeks etter, no preparations cvere made rat the • Qns. to :our trete, anti we lead". exasperated a-nation, ► emareh of "our army Spain. - They went it . .l-ast, , ; ' wltheut titkiee frotietheia the means of injuring us. when, perhaps, the French army_ they . had,libe The . eOnqueSt o - Copenhagen had taken from car re- rated, and • which could have . got to France: by' ne ,piatatione..end what would4urepethink .of the dis- .1- ot h er . means, 'were' I here before them.. It wag i only' .. .4eiteirutreitureq(Sir.J.MOtie'sExpedit ion ? disgrace- ; to transport the' - . French -•t rmy that ' the ,Nieole I t at 4,6 - -efneariode - r or the men, who wete ! ' Lord employed' 13ritish Iramports-e-his eieme 501... r ;..-11 , 4 Yfr itonglit.,egliPst ae n- nemy ); but to Ministers' ' diets mai:cited eno miles. I.'he.whohl of this litesi-- .g., • , e NI CI had maileeteonefO(pntetnimical tnoveofericels.: ' ness•was a riddle and an enigma not to be under- : 7 .414 atiples,eft:nrrt. bneeier . of linrepe to the othereestood. • His Majesty 'formally disapproves of what . Itionefter tit' S ' :itt l ia-d tit. roiice of the ‘vorld, his Ministers ()Acted the Tower tins to be 'tired es, pa.n g rg .... - • , - and the close in W,hich her people has risen,. deserved ; 'for-as rejoicing in the event. ..He 'did believe ell that eulogy t h at h a d .been bestowed upon it in so !. his Majesty had diaerent , ideas ' of the honour ' tthlel 'a .maittier - by.the ife:h..:..lover at the Address.H •of hiseartny than his Mieisters, and it,was there , It :gave thiseenutitry au opportunity of .performing ~, fere that he acquainted :Parlientept bow much' he' Kremer :talons, sitcle as had Dot occurred since the; ,' was_ dis s ati s fi e d with what was. a subj4l of- ekulti l' realtiCer out of th e French ReVelution, in . ,. 170. - tion,to them. •Sooe after Parliament last broke up, 'This siteetion of atiltii4 .nterited•the entpost atteo- in July, a paper o f " Precautions, " promulgeted lite);,..atidtlie snoSeeeireese delibmition; ott the part .by the Supreme Junta of Spain, was . published in. -..,, ,rV' J\iiiinster'S. The event toe:. ,place a little , before , this country. It was.a developement ofehe plan on ..-•• , Cellanteiti rose. All that was known„ all : that, winch they, intended to oppose the 4,newy, .and at .W.4.S $.l one, 'ell tWat was advised, • was by .Ministers ' the Same time a set o f'i ns t ru tti ons to t h e pe o p l e h ow • •:;lone i . they %vet e alone ,rettponsible, 'as they had not to ar,l. They stated, that the command of : Navarre !ilitegen to emeeilt er aSie; the advice .of . Perliatnent.e!, was cunsidered. by them es of the twist Importance tO ' . Vhen Spain came to adetermination to resist the cu- ! Spain,- as it was in that province that the entrance of teleiehinelits ot France, it became -.Nlinisters ineierely ;'. f e e g h. Fretich troops over. the Pyrenees into the coon ' to consider the natateef the case beim° they became . try was' to be resisted; and it was there also that a bar -4 party to it ; beeatie the event was in every respec4 rier.to the retreat of those already in Spain was to be qiust important ; not only would Spain,.if successful, . opposed. It Ministe rs h a d had some cortu n un i ca ti on be raised i tt the scale et Europe; but France would with. the Supreme duuta, and kept Sir A. Wellesley lie proPertionebly ditninished in power and cense- at heme till t hey.knew what to do; instead of being litienee: fey, from the instant a King hostile to France : employed fruitlessly in Portugal, the fort-es =tinder reigoed ill'Spain, die:ambitious schemes of France' hitn might heve been sent to the North of Spain, and tip Europe vanis h e d •iuto thin air. it Was neces- performed a service most essential to.the ' s alvation o f nary fur 111inister , , to,Consider4bether it were better j that country. When theneeet uf the Convention Was to meet , tk)-fou win a n arm y o f linghstanen, or to communieated•to Minasters, they caused the:guns to Supplyarms to the people of Spain, ,w h o, by sutler- Ibe tired; and it was not discovered, till afterwards,. d l- Pg resolutely the di , ,e- ess .: es and losses which they , that almost ev e ry - subjeitt in the-re a l m entertained a eluxe lay their account eith meeting, an g d, by deter- -. didilent opinion froni.thetn. The first City' of. the 2 ' ini . zi 2; never, to .s'ub t nir, , ;: o old STICW the enemy, Empire approached the 'l.lhrone with:a Petition on the Vlat i erta%it Was bettor todeeist from; than prosecute an su:.jc& m , and a ost vigorous reception they t»et with: emdng, which, fro m t h e genera l, s pi r i t. o f oppo- The Lord 'Mayor, Aldermen, and Ctw ommon Conil s siiurt he: met whit would require More blood and i were: everturned--but they made another' slaw!. treasury that) he 'nail power or' inclitianori to' ware. fThey prayed, in a constithtioual manner, for inqui- nPon it. , But our 1111ni,ters formed no plan. et all : ry ; and Ministers bad adVised his Majesty to answer they adapted ' either , ir. • : . -- ,, T..., eitner that of regular warfare or popular . them, that it . was not consonant to .the principles ihstiree'(tione jest a s 'events arose. .If lie could r e ly el, British jostle,: to pronounce sentence before ; 011 - the accounts published ie the New - spapers,.and• trial. ,He would 'like to knoW in Whet. British jus-• these ,ere the ooty . docieneets from whicn he could. Lic e di ff ere d hem the justice of other nations Tor in "t present speak, Sir A. \Velkslcy, had be e n sent whet country it differed so materiallyfrom its nature " 4 : ) 4t ;it, the head of an 'exPedition withunt any •spe- as Le uthorize en. auee-Hike . this, rhad cifichistru;:tioesat all. 'lle, Was to go with a n udven- • asked a Nix ki'enerals' to :g be hange d without' hearing a • .furoes.'roVin g commissioP to do what lie pleased, as word, of deteni.e. . The City of . London was 'lts() flu. tight hear ()levee-4s 'io . Spain. His farce was , told, that it did not " require theirinterLrencQ" 'to' bent tit toi-anY good eimpese, being too small to keep iodue e his 'Majesty to take the proper measures, ler the tield.ht Spain, it•aCting by itself, or to johythe investigating into the awes: of :any failure of his fakes Spain- might .have on toot, II his statemeetse ' areas. ~ Really, with all , due . deference to an y' opi ti,i'elt: hitice-.. ? eite in this . reseeet, he was not respon7 .- woe w hi c h his Majesty, is made-personally to Quer, l'ole . .fer . ihein, a • s . Gorcruinent had nut chosen to he could ,uot the consideriog th is .as (Inc as little ru 6 lidt yin a - ccotint of 'the trausettions. Sir. Arthur eougenial tb the eon.rtution. o l the country as' saint- Wellesley' accuAlpilv con:Jutted the Junta of Gal 7 M e to the Throne. A,,' Minist e r plight be flippant in Twill, w•ho tbdubt.. he ,ouelit , not to, laud et St.' :his. conversation, or , iti company,. but ought not to 2indero, but in, Point:ea', e here he, might ad es:, lentil and jest,, and smouttei , through the mouth of a . i . ,iitliying . point' for Ihe Northern .and Seu th- ;Majesty, I•ll(..tre, was a deeree .01... dignity and , de • ' e„w 514111i511 Armies. .. This set vice. might, have corona. seited, to expressions of diepleaetre from tire sitiweted Oallieia, with an Etie • my at their beck., ' Crown, and words .of a thtfel•ent kind front Afttise he Wit could do no repeal t o Spain,: . wli k ,:, , tile gr., alludedjo would, tn Ins opinion, .hay(: ha • better d ot ‘,.:•Atnie,' might: . ~he lust during the 'chute our ellleet. ' But NliiiistereWere irasciblei. an Irom their Ixpedition evas'engagett Sat POIANaL Pou ttrgal must pnit I ea...',iuss LI support them, expeaing oth e r iteve felleyeeken*etate at Seatu, as .'the smlilter wheel; `' ti um the City of •Lond o n, th e y l orgot wh at , country a/ i wayiiiiiipendi upon the: gre,der., Ll,ok at wa s due tO the Tnron e in the eepressi Tt nf th e i r the con.:::euctices. of this step. The Frendi have oh , own ff.:.eja4%..,...Thettio.a, imeerial torieof• thvipeeth, itritiedweerieesieee l ot, 20kathad, and are - tiow • 'cuiPloYed lue.vever, was the eineloyment'of Onr4Orce in,Spain: iikeluesnit'ut.out army in Sialin,which,.froM the late-, By•the incapacity or remiss:tees of our Commanders; autas 'el, its. art ilea, lids never had etc opportunity of we had lost* the only OppOrtanitv that everdid, or' suing , 'rho. speech, ici in ilung the campaign in. per h aps eve r -would 'oiler • emt' ..- ven if it was. a. wise' POrtugal, utentioaed i A Li t leis Majesty had tot ineby measere to send an army t o the assistance Of our M ail* 4 , ': • A • ,: , , pptVret• of the moue !I) which it haul been termi- . lies. He ,wis . hed JO li now ,if ever the SpeniSh Junta mated. This dispprobation had be; Leto thepresent applied for the co•opertitim of a ; regular toreeif•_ moment 1 , -cret 'ii I "• ' - * ''• ' .• . ~. i so ta r tr a m any 514.,1 taw . they ,did, at what "into it w4S,, or 'WI lU4I I t , r 'rh e Y -beingsittptvii, .it was gener;lll - I- •." 111 . d I I.' • ' ' • • a ) et,,,.ystuo t . tut wile , • h._ 110 t app y ofoy, tor eons, fiewtoretnee,s, an- sup- . .41441 0., ~01. the C.L.Lot ot Inquiry had tiamited,theiu. p li es at' motiey.•: if the bpaniards cOnid not dr ive vestigation. i.f . , Ilt.)%tTvvr, his- Maje Sty disapproved the Feeneh out of the ' country urittinally, there pr 'the conventithi ,or ithnistiee, what *ere the w as li t tl e - to. hepe• from 'their not. heing•over-run points to merii . ch Eli-Wet:inure Was attached'? whether i .wh e n the whole forg e o f France was pOUrfid into the did it allude to the substautivo,parts, or to the titles field, agnitist them. Here the Right 1 - 100. - Geutietnan . A 4ccorded , to. Juoot, NNW styled himself Duke of sho w e is t„ that, it' the disposable- force of France was, brdulA ; i , and othas ? II uoulcl be, strange it' the a s st4 e ,t io tut. MemOnefrom Vienna in 17914 more lionine did not try to , )-et a lull ihquiry into this hi ) - tlnin,soo,oo.o.tuen,'it mit , now be considetuely ins, tlhlac:Haus , subject,, ancC• l a y i t betore the nation.— creased hi t h ey accession of the Confederation. ot,the e rig our. of ‘,,linisters was equally,p.mipico ui in Rhine, flu:alba:ice of Russia, and the fieni coreptest ie, etluipmeot oi the arguy— .as all the Cietiereis who 01 Italy. • It , was tee therefore enough ler Niinisteis' cu'ittruantteet in Pe'rthgah agreed in-stating (lie again It o congvider : What the public feelings might .be ; tokefrt4n. What vas reported in the. Newspapers), . but w h at i t wae ; w i se ant i .sefe 'ter them to doe.- that' one.of their chief reasons for se - gutting such terms, The otight to :hale , comidered, whether or not it to the enemy its they clidby the Convention; was the was proper to risk a: liritiele ern)) in Spain against yant et artide-ry znici•cavalry. (Judy .4t)o,cavatry.were . t'his.alino s t inesistabto force of France: ' • He did not !ai tar stay it,.: iti 1,' , '%rtn . !,;11, :old ir.! had no doubt that sidle-,, Wame.lb howev e r, Spain wanted this apecies of " Aots 0 1 k'iittoLit ati:l vigour WOuld coutinue ~o , end, and iteeas in file oi)inion.of good juiges sale fu be afforded. • Was. the Noble Lord ;opposite (Lard . aff o rd it to them, .nod. that it would answer the . pur- Castlereagh) . so stinted for forcese e ..we s lig sdstinted,i pose reqUired. ..Ple could have wished than Ministeis , for transports, that he could send no better provided . had attended 'to a:preee,dent.ati - Ord.4them in the His , au Expedition Mae this, which was. the 'fast during i tOry 0141 - gland ; is hen Queen ElizabetWasssisted the I*lobthe year ? . He remanihered last Session, when the ; United Pim inces to. throw off theyeees of Spain. le Lord used toget up; and almost with tear y in None of them needed to be ashamed of a compariimi Ills eyes deplore the woeful state in which an Hun. i with Lord Lietleigh. The Right (lo ) u: 1 Gentleman Frit:odor hilt s , not present,' had left ,the Transport .! h ere adverted. to an7expressien on. his Majesty's,Dee Wice,, .Ue was wain. to condemn that Orilla' vet.). 1 •elsraii,w, thai: his' niiesty.: considered his:engmt,o - not keep these vessels; always iu 1 Mullis willi Spaill il. ' ; bin ling, as the roost soleinn pay, whether wanted or•not i , atld assort that the best• l treaty ; and . centeod e d, that they could not "be cot. way to have them when wanted, was to keepthent 1 Lidered . as 'equally binding, einee 'tile one pessesSed always ready. • Could, any one suppose that his vi- : the saii,..tionu, Parliament, which 'the other did not.' swear could slave slept on this for seven toouths, . ,l, 04: formal Treaty was . not )et before the lionee, ' li,ttring .which time 'lie come! not only.. Wye' hired .i Ito feat butt: entieipat ing what Would Come properly to t 4 e r _ a osliortse but built them. ' - ,;.-Yet this was , the ; 'be discn,sed .when alwy were `lll possessien 01 din "` 'lll'ht, wisdom,, and vigour of Migisters, and a ' deLtitiV•ltr. The. state a warlare- adepted by Mt- P r°°l : 9l • l o.nn Britain was able to dOon :the.,Conti ; nistersikr Spain wasloost airunisbing l - f o r d i k e Sp a . "lent , Wit was.pot too serious .a 'ltubjeat - .to laugh ' eraiels were' to, figiiras: are armed :natiou, out army' i at i 1 14 Ocepttnt of the: horses given , by -one.of the ! uotild be oh Po use ice the heart of Spain, as 'the op, Generals Olt H. Dalrymple), was - truly ludicrous. ! :rations - of a. i:ogniar force would destroy that Mode°, they were described as . old, - blind, end lame, and cat ying_ou .war. The two systems We-I'e' incompat I: ti'wily ot them dyiag of ay. Were such the cat- : hie. in ahe desultory warfare ot au artned population, t sent. by the Nobl?, ,Lord .to meet the Fiench I they ran away, and returned again to tt..e charge as ill Portttoal ? But there. was •a second. reasoo f• 'occasioe required. This could not be done by ,a' re . - 4 - tiBSigUeil by .tour Commanders for agreeing to the i 'guiar alloy, .particularly of strangers, tinacquAinted , eoituention ---- the - time .gained, it seented, *its i 'with the come ry mid the passes; It. was to Ilitee tV; ti of importance to the cattAi of Spain, anti it was I . rip:Cies' of turce.having. been united that 1:e e,,eliteet necessary .to diseng;fge. our army from 'Portugal,- ! Atte disasters ot the Spaniards. The in eetilar troops , i 4 c Ourrni.ft. the might be employed in Spain.....- ! al ways gav L t , way - ear l y in ,the aa i on, . and 1t 111,. .., these reasons were 11,,:t sUCh as answered the pur-• 1 reguler. were consequently defeated and cut to pieceq. poses of the Noblet,Ltud, lee had DO cause to, ocitn- i ,It therefore appeared, at least, problematical, whether Plain 3, for what .satis,OdorransWers could' be'Vx.: the sending -a British force to, Spain was in any Wtc4l t from Commanders, who succeeded each , !way an. advisable tbeaStire . He would be glad. to tither faster than Ito were changed • ; , or- how see what the rigour of Ministers . bad been, the could three G ell e rt & in tee „iy_foor hours, .be ex- prompt, energetic, useful epplication of the 13 - titi . ‘di Peeled to knew much el . the snuation,olthe army , force iu the Spanish war. tie asked for a single in Under their orders On !':e atilt of . August the ! ,StaliCeofit, and could not believe, atter-who had betee tie I. signed , .tail yet tiro months, even . s l id, that the Noble Lord (Custivicagliywouid vve i .. . . , -either the Expecntion _fp the iialiic or to Portupl as instances . . It' 1113 statements were; correct, they were .onlYesamples of feebleness, *eakneis, and inability, As for What related to the subsidrto - therKing of ',Sweden, he did not see how we could refuse it, it' he Confitmett in maintairt.the contest in NV hie!! he had engaged, but he wondered how Min;sters could, ex •peti :Inv thing from his doing so. Ilis condutt as an independent Monarch, and our Ally, had certat:ily been Sue!) as to entitle . -him to our admiration sand esteem ; but what assistance enttkl he - givt to F,n . g. land or Spain ? He (Mr. -P.) had. said - fait Session„ that the best thing SwedenCtmld do with the money 861 f !min this Conntry, wearer :be to por , :hase*, a. '[;c=age; and be continued of that opinion, for no ! thing come) be so ruinous as : trying to join us in continental wilts.. Our sit tLition; from ont com merce, wealth; and maritime stiperiotity, secured us from the storm`; but what could these Stated do winch were limited in their resources, and expOsed to the pow,erlul attack of the enemy, Or what could, . _ we gain by their ruin'? Such .it system of polit:cs held us up as the involver in ruin, not as'the, pro teaor .01 Stides. ' These Were the principal ob,er vatians on ivhat occurred to hien . in the-Speech ; but there was still another :subjeCt of importance, on which it was totally silent.' He'alluded - to Ame rica. 'Much eorie . 94oticlen;:e had taken pbee bet ween our Minister and America, and 'between America 'andr , France a dtreti overture had been iiii t d e to `oor Governittent,. and rejected. When t hey last „pal t . .; eil,, they kit things in a very precarious state, likely fa unite America w it'll France, and create a war be tween her :ut this Country. .11,• as vtaS generally Ontetideil, We were in.:;tified in our Ordets in Conn ell, becanse neutrals 11;1,1 not ntOmpity taken ' up and resented the first injury oilered to their trade by Fiance, .the argunient must gink,, when paper measures for that pnrrise are otK.red to he pursned. 'What he had seen 00 he American Coircspon.:l:Thee; in his mind 'f!illy acquitted that:Gentleman of 'hew ni,; any undue pretereneefor I::rince. After i n tail); i i) ing Jo procure from France the repeal oil ic, oh- . no,.,;intiS Decrees, she came to u , ", and s.ii.l, I will raise the cinbargo as far as regards yon, and continue , it apinst France, provided you st ill not enforce your Orders in Council. Ti this fgr proposition, what a ( rash and utijostiftable• answer was returned by 'our . : Minister, " I luit he could not buy sit tfie licAtilhy . of AillprC.l, by a co”cessic „ not made to America but to . 'France." Did:Fr:wee ask 'ns to alt?_ noy thing ? or . to make anrconcese.on I No ; but, Arne,: L i ticasaid, I will. help you to enforce your O r d ers i n 1 "Conno against your enemy, and give you a Mono poly. of my trade, if you will only restrain their 'operation against neutrals. Another reason assigned' by our Minister, evincing-no sinall degree of levity, was, that.as " the systent at' blockade was one that depended on extent and Continuity, - bin whielf was now "-broken int o harmless and contemp t Ade, ti.ag *lnents" (if . France succeeded in her designs on Spain, die was afraid we should feel more than ever the extent of her power of ph% aliott), " It is as tieccs. , ,ary to sticky to the world, that , the ,)'right ' leveLled at our commerce had totally tailed." Why were we to use this. atgument against the just de wands of Anneriel, whoin we had itninediately be fore told 'that the system woe- bioken 'into harmless 'and contemptible fragments ; perhaps . the l.ligli Hon, Gentleman (Mr. Clinning) would lung have to re petit whit tie bad . thus 40040 ,in 41 int 44100,1 of Me and llVlOu.nded exultation. —Such t , eing the state of The matter, litY was' riot surprised that the Speech should: he silent on this sohject. l'ii,:: 'lion,. Mover of the Address had told I:,em, iti the course. of a speech,. Whi c h did him de! . inmost honour, and gave proinise of many future displays ol talents, that our commercial, interests had flouriihed under the system of our enemy ; but it now tippered that that system had never bL•en tried, being soon broken . •inte contenipihie fragments. - Thjs as ad he had ~ to O'er od the. Speech. _ ; Is to thine frei,suranees con- taine.d in, the Addresis, he believed thetas was not the smallest, ttitTerence 01 opinion in the House. There was not one ain.ng, then), ar among the pieople, who was not ready tb do every : A/nag which could con tribute to' the success cyst a good cause: They ‘vc.l:l4l . give all their ItiloUd and treasure 'before they %, wild: abandon Spain ;. but they' W 61114 not do So tor purposes itiieless to' Spain anti prejudicial to Illein selveS. He etas ready to give a, general assur a nce , and prole-At:in of assistance; 'and sincerely wished our enemies to be convinced that we were routed in evert thing that was for the h(!p..)ht or the cowl,. try. lie Would not move any Ainendthent, but thought they few observations necessary, as well as :to sloe, thatos Icing as Ile had a friend near him, he. would not be Fatistied: till tho'ConVention of Cintra, the condiLt of t,ite Spanish War, and 'the nattir, of the Cnirespotident'e With Aniejea 'sea.' ii;lly , ' ex plained and elucidated, `flick! thret poil,ts were st) vitiilly important to flirty country, tita't no one, even the mot ft ichidly to the sue istires of Ministers, could `be assnrod, that every Muter conn.!•,..ted with thesis was folly litt, , ,:y the• Public. - :. ~ .r Litt (*IA r CZ, ff tiiitl row. 1k• obic.Tvcd tbnl the dvehtration with. \cinch the 11,m. to in C ,, nchtte.k..l•lni spee'elt, ILA; lw 0;11,1 oppow the Atiilr,s, fli.n had been 40 ably mar r d by tits Ho. Ftiend, and his tirther ii,clualion, tilt the varinits ptlints on IA hid, briefly nittelled should beri.Hrl- suhsccprtit obietV,l - Nit`a,cd hint fro :n the gic: Irr.some of entering, mitnittly into. im (.x . onin.niii;l of the statements ‘v ttielt the Hon. Getttletria;l had. ventured, .I(iinak . e. The lion. Gentlem in Seetili.:d particular ly iritin'eASed tciltt the enoviclititt, that in. the cause inirtwed . to his 11/14:sty's Governtuent (!lnd was there It c.nlie in ca.. deeply, niteri!,l4na), there Ltd been n kut3l tv ttif of Ni,dont and vigt.ur, Jilt! tlh.t thkeo.inCry and' Entop.e. Ita:t no chance Lt s;tlvzitititi by 3 1 1 :trig of t tie ;nen- vbho I.i.ere to condnathe-affitirs cot the St:tte in the presolit most ethicat anTimpnrt,mt peri6.i. For hiiown part, ha e,itife:tied, tit it it tn, tine. Getittent,in esta his .duirge t - Igionst the resent ..NliniAty, he diet not thit;k ',lilt the conntry Would de.rivo ninrh cnosolation trom reflecting on the hart.!; into which the rt;ini,ol (orernatent would ritot probably tail. No great Parliamentary reao let:tion was necessaryto carry bac k the mind • to those periods when the Ilonriurable tientietnan and his friends were called upon to hupport the cause elf tOpn, at it time se;treely les tnottletitotl9 'than ;he rtt'Aent.. hough the concicia of his Ntijo*ty's ,pesetit Afinistor , . nriglit' lie (Teti It) rtanlination, t ie yel prond iil t it watiti bear .an hottunrableetilt. tiost iu that 0; tiseic pt,d.:CCSSOI3. his certainly dill not rtrAn'toi detain the Irouse long.rin ,the.preseut oceasionr but h. .could shortly ettll titer attention to, the Honourable Gentleman'ar obiervattons.in suc cession.,‘ The :first instance cilduced •by the Ho:. Gehtleman in support of WI chargeof I,l3sench of vi.zoor' in Government as; that early in th e l ast spring they seitta hug - ea - Olt:try to%eto the 13.11t: C 10 co-operate s witir our Aily anallcing of S Now : with rove& to this measure,. Rti .far as naval interference \vein, it oa;nettout Winos; crioeal:y oppOrtone, •for tho t4llO W 35 at'that time et the tie of Funen, had disthicily t - I,te(4' When substo.le.iiy in ibis country, that if the:Bt.-I'6bl) 'fleet Lid the'BelLon th-iy •WI it.l) did, li, .an most have passed over to 'Zealand, .followed by that of f3arnadottc.— Ass' to 'what reilited to die , military thA was tun- left to the juil:!,ment the British Gine:went aj oi j e . floweter think of the 1.4%.. ' nourahle Gentlest :111's jud;aneht in militiiry Matters, be certainly thou - 2:h t Our !he opinion ot t !ta SWeilish - Govertitneid . :on this sui.ject turd at least CWIII ;: and tllii Ihe'tf:rce sent to Sweden was On t h e requisition, nay,- at the co treaty of tl.t.• SAedish Minister resi te!it in this COLE.I - wiu 11.44 (I,•;:i.3*('d that (hit force might make the Yhole difference of the salvation (f S•it•erleal..f. F.'eling' the -(kte,runiatton to stippor. Sweden by arms, arld not tis the Hompatabfe•Gentleman had held otit,io sell it io the enemy, the British Governs • meat .had not i!esitated 'io comply with 'this' int 0011. W ;Im. it ere the circumstances which.led to the return of the tro7ps, the Hotise was not at pre. sem iotesti.i,;aling. experience"tat,tallya• ding everyexplana. tion, eNcept bat ilk hi injure the feeling* of our Ally and the Public !=:ervic flu certainly hesitatiOn declaring that the gitUarit Coomiander of that force sto,d• - completely excinpated ; and he issue with the Hot - 10'11-.11)1e Ginit!ein.lit„ that his;lktijesty's Government.' hat given thlequivocal' proof, that they did not tlitipprove of ti,e, cond u ct Of that brave and z ( ; ):1 - icer,' by entirely in. trustily to him 'the military confidence that was ever intrusted into the ti neral, in t i.e. annals of our history. flie Paint iti tho Honourable Gentleman's slier,.;!. which Shoul.l notiee, was the• great. li:T11 CN - 1114)11.1 that lionoiariible Gent!'-man staled to have •been Made by D.minark, not wi hstanclicig the expeditien, the morality of Which he bad formelly so strongly depecated. And here it , ) must rennu k on . the •Strange perversion of terms created 0y the; Ho nourable Gen:linthtu, tit ho Chili) tri.(l the teits'p;g . ..warfare of gun-btiAts in a (aim, %% Hitt tho gee t naval etfotts of our 1 - 1-!! list. Did the Honourable Getitlenien mean. , to saY, that, in the , c.ior s e "of the idat naval campaign in the Baltic, it would hate blade riu tfitle.rt';ic., it, wh.n the Russian fleet ca..ee out Of Criinstadt, johied by tificen Danish Sall of the Lillie ? nut this kmintry have been obliged to provide an i•rptivakin- _fleet for the. purpose of eounteracting - ihe naval force of the .near!', if we had had to•meet thirty Sail of :the 'Line 'instead' of twelve or thiiteen ? He lett it to Illy Hotiourob!o • G.:titleum's candour, as a States. matt, to say it h. ti r the naval all ii.s oh Great Bri taiu would htl4e stood as they _now do, (Futter in the or iii any eilier.part of the . In'those seas, ,tixposed to frequent espeCial•yin Stt:n mot, - English - fleet chnlil not eoilipleie;y defend our eultimrce ;I;Rio,t - the gon-hoats. :Said (4.lefi all the injury dune t i <lat tr.ulc 11: liraixrrtu . trl tO eXtent of that trade . to be scarcely perceptible. But all . these pututt were eellateral to that great an (iverWhentling con sideration .which must press upon the.lllil4l of every man, ascortneded with the probability of prodociog . the resurrection of the world, or continuing' it in • that lamentable slat in Which it had been sU Joni.; buried. He was most ready to adui.t, that :oil tact former Government had so heavy a responsibility tn- Ladled,' us that which had fallen on the piesent veroment since the close of the last Sessiiill Wine:tr.' • He wsas ready to admit, that to no Go., vetninvnt had the wishes, the hopes, and the deter mination of the country in then- sopport haler more trOao;lmaisly express 4 lie was wads!. to adroit, that his Majesty's Nlinisters felt that they had only . to ,call u, sin the Country, mid that their dill wouhl. be ;inovered with the utmost liberality of feeling ; they uw . a. contrOned, therefore, by no other Con skivral it/119' than those nataaral ,t(:). winds all hornan exertion,. and all human. power were sub-.; je4t even in such all Empire as Groat Britain, • mining, therefore, in the most extensive degree, the toB;7oll4ibihty 01 his Majesty's Ministers on this sub. jest, he felt 110 apprehension at the, prospett ot ing the c!uir4t, of thelionoursble Gentlewan !VIM. it. Ile felt conildent that it would be proved they had redeemed the pledge given by them to Nina totnit ill the, la Sessjun.; last that they : had carried on the .AtrOggle and applied the abandant resourpes of the Country in a niament which, on mature reflec tion. :1);,'Ie irvd hipit likely to sectlro the objeCt iu . Viov,, an Opiilion which'even pht experieneit Si.ttVed only to ci,uffirirL He felt bold, therefore, in doclar. that whenever the }l,qlo4riibit: CAritieurriti subjeet.O; , tore the ito.tse a tan yy, lie 3 !) , 11:11(.1 IA: folly enabled to ; rovi,!ttsat r:vl;thtsty'•, Governtiwitt had aaed lan tt ► fullest ciii iv io wn of which would be most cOnducive,to the success of the cause of Soattil and tt that cause •Shotfici 110! RtIVVCCei, tilt! Woukti reofli; not frostrtaly u . ,; , ,1!;:: - .t. on ibc;:r ilar, hot from greater engines. of destruction havoy; been brought aVillit 11111 Colitt th.til it was in the.poWel W Great hriirtin afford tneanS of Lt.:fence. This was too import.int a F i l bjec 7 l 0 he 13,1()kil a tlt.tbattl of that sort, "Opinion Upon it most depend on ConSidera.. taws that cunt I not be-superficially examined. But he inuSt•be "permitted to say a few wards Upon )t. It nor wily easy to . colivd the 'Hon. G e n t l ema n' s titetitiment i his tO the co ur s e of military policy* wh i ch ottglit to' • have beet! adopted towards Span... 'rue Hon; Gentlem tn. had described tw() modes which out Military assistance alight have been afford ed the one hy furnishing the Spaniards with arms an d anununiti v n the other (that which had 66ide bevu ndopted by his Majesty's: Government) of sentling to their "tits' ayegAlar military lorce.--:, • The lii?nonrable Geti9ernall e*pfNOPO - his riartiality for't h specie 9 of wl,rtprrz, rettnninended by what , lie c.iik.d the .••itli,reine 11i7certainly dicl re colleii - t the iLipe,' alludtalto by tbenenuotable Geit ce'inaO, 'but it circoloted leog'.before the Su prebieCentr.ii innta wag ata. eXiittinCe. 'The writer \Vats I.lllknaWo, it had .tio kind'of authority - , and it